For those of you who don’t want to check out too many different websites – I’ve made a page with all theosophical blogs (and forums) I know about. So you can easily check where there is something new going on. It also links out to the active theosophical forums and has the most recent posts on theos-talk listed. If you’re wondering why the recent posts on other forums aren’t listed: the technical reason is they don’t have a public RSS feed.

I’ll be sure to post here occasionally as well though. Don’t worry.

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The embarrassment for the Adyar Theosophical Society must be awful and the whole thing won’t be much fun for the Tekels Park animals either. The leadership probably didn’t realise that keeping the matter quiet is a poor strategy in the internet age and already items are appearing on the net about what is happening at Tekels Park. Silence by the Theosophical Society in England President, Eric McGough on the subject of the fate of the animals only serves to confirm that he knows they are going to be killed.

If Tekels Park has been sold without an enforceable agreement to ensure that the animals are not killed and this inevitably leads to the destruction of this wildlife sanctuary by development, then the ensuing negative publicity will damage the Adyar Theosophical Society for many years. Theosophy and dead animals are not compatible.

The Bournemouth Theosophical Society is now telling people that it has no connection with Tekels Park even though one of its members, Barry Seabourne is a director of the Tekels Park Estate Limited. He has been a close associate of Eric McGough and must know what the fate of the Tekels Park animals will be. This process of distancing and denial has also been seen in Bradford and Chester and clearly shows how concerned Theosophists in England are about animal welfare.

Suspending the charter is a way of saying: we (as the TS Adyar) do not support wat has been going on here. It’s the ultimate punishment – the council can’t go further than that, because each section is (by international law) law abiding by it’s own country. Ultimately the state has to decide whether a section, in this case legally a society, abides by it’s laws.

When a section doesn’t abide by the TS ‘laws’, it can urge them to change, it can use diplomacy, but ultimately it has no power if the section doesn’t want to abide by the way of doing things that Adyar suggests.

The only thing it can do, if diplomacy fails, is withdraw the charter. If that’s what they’ve done, it’s a clear signal they do NOT approve and all those who think they DO are mistaken.

However, without solid information it’s all speculation.

True: there are several issues being mixed up here. As long as no one comments officially that will continue I guess.